Music-holder



`@.W'.lvIILLsPAUcHI.` Musi@ Holder. No. 235,695. Patented Dec. 21.1880.

UNITED STATES FATENT Finca.

CHARLES W. MILLSPAUGH, OF ROWAYION, CONNECTICUT.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,695, dated December 21, 1880. Application filed February 17, 1880.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, OHARLEs W. MILLS- PAUGH, of Rowayton, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Music-Holder; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which the figure is a perspective view.

My invention is animprovement upon that general form of music-holder in which a horizontal bar is provided with two sliding blocks carrying clamping-springs, which press upon the leaves on each side of the bool: to hold the same open.

The improvement consists iu constructing the bar cfa plain angular erosssection without groove or incision, and combining the same with hollow or tubular slides, which carry the springs and entirely surround the bar, and

Y providing, also, at each end ofthe bar a block or offset, and a screw by which the bar is secured to-any form of music-rack, and by which filling-blocks or offsets the tubular slides car rying lthe springs are removed from the plane of the :rack or object to which the bar is attached, so that said tubular slides have perfect freedom of movement on the bar, as hereinafter described.

In the drawing, Arepresents the horizontal bar, which, it will be seen, is made in a plain rectangular form without grooves or incisions, which have been heretofore generally used. In dispensing with these grooves I not only simplify the construction of the bar, but `there is no lodging-place for dust, which, in lling up the corners of grooves, causes the slide to cramp and bind. `Upon this bar are slipped endwise the two hollow tubular slides D, corresponding in cross-section to the cross-section of the bar A. Mounted upon these tubular slides D, and projecting inwardly toward the center of the bar, are the two springs E, made of thin sheet metal, bentas shown, and arranged to clamp the leaves of the book. Now, as the tubular slides D encompass the bar A, it will be seen that on the under side of said bar they project beyond the plane ofthe bar, andi if the bar were placed iiat against the rack these tubes would be clamped between the bar and the rack, instead of being free to be adjusted thereon. I therefore raise or offset the ends of the bar A from the rack by blocks C, and then fasten the same to the rack with screws, as shown.

I am aware of the forms shown in Patents Nos. 155,010 and 214,608, and I do not claim anything shown therein. The merit of my invention consists in combining a sin glc straight bar, A, formed without grooves or incision, the tubular slide I), encompassing the sa-me and carrying springs E, and offsets C for the bar A at the ends, asv shown, which combination secures a very simple, cheap, and practical device, applicable to any music rack, and one whose operation is not likely to become obstructed by accumulation of dust.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- As a new article of manufacture, the musicholder for attach ment to pianos, Sto., composed of the single straight bar A, formed without groove or incision, the tubes D, entirely surrounding this bar and sliding thereon, and provided with springs E, offsets C at the ends of the bar, and fasteningscrews, all arranged as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing l have hereunto set my hand and seal this 9th day of February, 1880.

CHARLES W. MILLSPAUGH. [In s] 

